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pression, coriaceous, the yellow color has more or less metallic 
sheen. A fine well marked form, duhia Oliv. seems to be smaller 
and smooth. 
Malacosoma (Exora) guttatum sp. nov. 
Medium sized, dark chestnut brown, head except the lower 
face, and metasternum black, elytra very thickly punctate, nor- 
mally with two elongate parallel black spots on each side, one 
humeral, the other basilar and almost touching the end of scu- 
tellum and parallel to the first spot and the suture, this 4 spotted 
is the normal form, varieties occur where there is a further double 
series of spots, in direct extension of the normal spots, these ad- 
ditional spots are median and ante apical. 
Type Rio Janeiro, Espirito-santo, Brazil, 2 labelled Miers. 
Coll, represent the most spotted vars. 6 specimens in all. Bow. 
coll. Length 7 mm. 
Head with transverse depression and frontal fovea, vertex 
shining, nearly impunctate, antennae more than half the length 
of body, joints 2, 3 equal, first 3 or 4 joints rufous, rest black, 
thorax same shape as obsoleta, shining nearly impunctate, elytra 
without depression, the punctuation a trifle obsolete at apex, in 
obsoleta the sutural spots are subbasal and do not attain the 
margin, in guttata they always start at and include the margin. 
Malacosoma (Exora) quadripustulatum sp. nov. 
Small, black, head and thorax rufous, each elytron with 
two large flavous spots, one triangular subhumeral, with apex 
near the suture, the other oval, midway between the middle 
and apex. 
Type 1 example Rio (2 Jac. coll.) 2 Misiones Prov. Argen- 
tine, Bow. coll. Length 4^-5mm. 
Head with front more or less darkened, antennae nearly as 
long as body, joints 2, 3 equal, thorax sparing punctulate, sides 
very nearly straight, elytra finely punctate, depressed along the 
suture, below the scutel, the spots rest on the inflexed margin 
and do not attain the suture. 
